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Subject to confirmation by the Senate, the judge chosen by Joe Biden to become the first black woman to join the Supreme Court held her rank during the marathon of hearings which ended on Thursday, in the face of sometimes despicable attacks from the Republican opposition.
Like many of America’s legal elites, Ketanji Brown Jackson studied at Harvard. But today she recounts having very nearly fled the prestigious Boston University during her first months as a student landed from a public high school in Miami, then gripped by homesickness and the discomfort of feeling so foreign to codes with which his classmates seemed so familiar to him. “One night, she remembered that Wednesday, as I walked through the yard, I passed a black woman I didn’t know, who stared at me, and I think she knew how I felt. She leaned over to me and said, “Keep going.”.»
The following year, she distinguished herself among the members of the Black Students Association demonstrating their fury once morest the affront of a Confederate flag, the standard of the old slave South, hanging from the window of a dormitory. According to Antoinette Coakley, one of her oldest friends, the voice of Ketanji Brown Jackson was distinguished by this singular watchword: “She told us : “While we are fighting this injustice, we are failing our classes, and it would be doing them a favor to fail.” So we made sure to protest while going to class, and show them there, by excellence, that they were wrong.…